0276 Sleep Attitudes Predicting Sleep Outcomes: An Intersectionality Perspective

Sleep health is emerging as a means of prevention against chronic disease and negative psychosocial outcomes. This is especially important considering that certain groups (e.g., African Americans, lower SES, women) are more likely to experience health disparities, in addition to insufficient and/or poor quality sleep. Moreover, often times these identities are not found in isolation; they intersect with other, potentially marginalized, identities. Additionally, it is also important to consider how one’s attitudes toward sleep affect sleep outcomes and how these attitudes may vary according to intersecting identities. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to explore how the intersectionality of identities is associated with both sleep attitudes and sleep outcomes. Participants consisted of 173 adults recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Participants reported their age, gender, race, and SES, sleep outcomes, and sleep attitudes, which were measured via a psychometrically validated scale, the Charlotte Attitudes Towards Sleep Scale. A significant three-way interaction of gender by SES by sleep attitudes was found (b=-.13, p